| Maybe the most famous secret recipe of all time? | | | | protect their products. |
| The KFC Fried Chicken Recipe is in a new super | | | | If the recipe is so secret and the recipe so well |
| secret, high-tech vault to protect it. The recipe that | | | | protected, how can people say they have the |
| was hand written in pencil by Harland Sanders is now | | | | "secret" recipe. Well, they don't actually have the |
| guarded around the clock. The recipe was kept in an | | | | secret recipe, but they have figured out how to get |
| undisclosed location while the new security system | | | | it to taste as close a possible. Chefs are well trained |
| was installed. | | | | and can figure out most ingredients in food. And |
| Only a few super select people know the exact | | | | after they have guessed the ingredients and how to |
| recipe. To ensure the secrecy, no company is allowed | | | | make the item, they can experiment with their new |
| to mix all of the 11 herbs and spices. Two companies | | | | secret recipe and get it right. |
| mix part of the ingredients and a third company | | | | On a recent episode of Hell's Kitchen, chef Ramsey |
| mixes the ingredients from the other two companies | | | | had the contestants try to figure out the ingredients |
| together. This way no one but the select few at | | | | in a dish he prepared. Only one person was able to |
| KFC can know the recipe. Other companies like Coke | | | | figure out all of the ingredients. While it's difficult it is |
| and McDonald's go to these extensive lengths to | | | | possible to figure out someone else's recipe. |